Recent Tempting Titles 700s - 800s

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The nonfiction books of Tempting Titles are arranged by Dewey Decimal order, just the way they would be arranged on the New Book Shelves. Here are today's offerings:

700s - Art, Music, Entertainment, Sports

Journey of a Thousand Miles: my story by Lang Lang

“The 25-year-old Chinese piano prodigy chronicles his coming of age. . . A true rags-to-riches story told with fervor and variety.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Even More Outrageous Pop-up Celebrity Meltdowns by Heather Havrilesky

We don't have the first one, but the subject headings say it all.

Celebrities -- conduct of life;

Celebrities -- caricatures and cartoons;

Celebrities -- pictorial

The Secret Life of Siegfried and Roy: how the tiger kings tamed Las Vegas, by Jimmy Lavery

“In this light biography of Siegfried and Roy, the authors note that the entertainers kept their intimate lives private, leaving little for would-be biographers to reveal. ... This isn’t a comprehensive study of the work of Siegfried and Roy, but fans will still have fun with it.” (Publisher Weekly)

Doris Day: the untold story of the girl next door by Kaufman, David

“This is an eye-opening, fair-minded bio of a woman who brought a lot of joy to fans but has found very little herself.” (Publisher Weekly)

800s - Literature

Cite it right : the SourceAid guide to citation, research, and avoiding plagiarism by Tom Fox, Julia Johns, and Sarah Keller. 3rd ed.

"A straightforward compilation of the four major writing-style manuals -- American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the Modern Language Association (MLA) -- this fully revised handbook distills the major concepts into easily understandable terms and provides complete citation examples for each source type." (Publisher description)

Shimmering Images : a handy little guide to writing memoir by Lisa Dale Norton.

"For the purposes of this book, I am dealing with the slice-of-life memoir in which you identify one potent period and you explore it through vivid imagery, honest voice, stunning compassion, and a deep awareness of the larger issues at play that guide your story in a subliminal way—myth, metaphor, and current issues of the day." (Book excerpt)

How Fiction Works byJames Wood [No image available]

"What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step." (Publisher description)

Ray Bradbury : Uncensored! : the unauthorized biography by Gene Beley

Speeches, interviews, unauthorized views and reactions to Los Angeles' own library loving free speech hero. (Summary)

Mother on Fire: the truth about parenting by Sandra Tsing Loh

"Radio commentator and performer Loh (A Year in Van Nuys) has penned a hilarious memoir with the same title as her one-woman comedy show, which ran for seven months in Los Angeles. The story begins as a droll little breeze that soon sucks the reader into a frenzied whirlwind as Loh recounts her harrowing quest to find a suitable kindergarten for Hannah, her four-year-old daughter (Loh habitually calls Isabel, her two-year-old, simply The Squid.)" (Publisher Weekly)

Milton : poet, pamphleteer, and patriot by Anna Beer.

Chronicles the life of the master writer, offering insight into his involvement in the politics and religion of his era, and covering such topics as his writings against King Charles, his troubled relationships, and the impact of the Restoration on his survival. (Book summary)

The same man : George Orwell and Eveyln Waugh in love and war by David Lebedoff

"For those wearied by doorstop biographies, this lean and urbane dual portrait is a breath of fresh air. As lawyer and writer Lebedoff (Cleaning Up) makes clear, on the surface no two British writers could be more different. Evelyn Waugh was a loud convert to Catholicism, an even louder social climber and very much a man of Empire. George Orwell (Eric Blair) could best be described as a long-suffering atheistic humanist, a utopian socialist and dreamer." (Publisher Weekly)

Mrs Woolf and the servants : an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light

"Virginia Woolf is a feminist icon, and her husband, Leonard, was a committed socialist and supporter of workers' rights. Yet, says Light, in this fresh take on Bloomsbury, the couple perpetuated the class system by paying a pittance to their charwoman. In her attempt to restore the servants to the Bloomsbury story, Light also ruminates about whether the dependence of Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell, on their assorted live-in maids and cooks plays havoc with the idealized image of them as bohemian, free women creating a new kind of life." (Publisher Weekly)